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      "vendor": "BigCommerce (Commerce.com)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.bigcommerce.com",
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      "category": "commerce",
      "summary": "Hosted commerce platform with REST management APIs for catalogue, carts, checkouts, orders and customers, a GraphQL Storefront API, and a beta storefront MCP server that lets an agent search products, build a cart and get a checkout link.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigcommerce",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigcommerce.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigcommerce.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bigcommerce.json",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://api.bigcommerce.com",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Store-level API accounts give a static access token sent as X-Auth-Token, limited by OAuth scopes chosen at creation. Apps get per-store tokens through OAuth. The GraphQL Storefront API takes a JWT. The storefront MCP URL needs no key for guest shopping, and logged-in shoppers connect through Storefront Session Sync.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Core $39 a month or $29 billed yearly (up to $30K trailing 12-month GMV), Growth $105 or $79 (up to $100K), Scale $399 or $299 (up to $33,333 GMV a month, 0.9% on GMV above that), Performance from $1,499 a month billed yearly. No fee on orders through embedded payment providers. Orders through other providers pay 2.0% of GMV on Core, 1.0% on Growth and 0.6% on Scale. Card processing from 2.89% + $0.29. 15-day free trial with no card needed (https://www.bigcommerce.com/essentials/pricing/).",
      "priceSummary": "$39 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402. The MCP hands the shopper a checkout URL and payment happens in the store's checkout.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 7,
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        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/docs/overview/quick-start",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.bigcommerce.com/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "commerce.products",
        "commerce.cart",
        "commerce.checkout",
        "commerce.orders",
        "commerce.headless"
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        "hosted",
        "closed-source",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "webhooks",
        "enterprise"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-09-30",
      "graded": true,
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        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 180,
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        "categoryRank": 5,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 62,
          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 66,
          "security": 70,
          "transparency": 78
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        "pending": [
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        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Published rate limits per plan, with X-Rate-Limit-Time-Reset-Ms on every 429. Storefront MCP is beta, switched on per store, has no back-office tools and documents no tool annotations.",
        "strengths": [
          "Published rate limits per plan, with X-Rate-Limit-Time-Reset-Ms on every 429",
          "PCI DSS Level 1, SOC 1, 2 and 3, and ISO 27001, 27017, 27018 and 27701 listed in the trust centre",
          "Guest shopping through the storefront MCP with no key",
          "Changelog updated almost daily, ten entries on 29 and 30 September 2026",
          "15-day free trial with no card, and official API clients for Python, PHP, Ruby and Node"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Storefront MCP is beta, switched on per store, has no back-office tools and documents no tool annotations",
          "Access tokens never expire and can't be rotated in place",
          "No current public OpenAPI file and no error-format reference. The old spec repo was archived in December 2023",
          "About 30 status-page incidents between 6 July and 1 October 2026, the longest about 16 hours of degraded search on a subset of stores",
          "Rate-limit quota is shared by every app on the store"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Give the agent a store-level API account with only the scopes the task needs, and delete it when done",
          "On a 429, wait X-Rate-Limit-Time-Reset-Ms before retrying",
          "Expect up to 10 minutes after a store owner enables the MCP before the URL answers",
          "The MCP stops at a checkout URL. Payment happens in the shopper's browser",
          "Point a coding agent at the docs MCP at https://docs.bigcommerce.com/_mcp/server"
        ],
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          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 66,
          "security": 70,
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        },
        "provenanceScore": 90
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      "connect": {
        "http": "curl \"https://api.bigcommerce.com/stores/$BC_STORE_HASH/v3/catalog/products?limit=5\" \\\n  -H \"X-Auth-Token: $BC_ACCESS_TOKEN\" -H \"Accept: application/json\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http bigcommerce \u003cyour-storefront-mcp-url\u003e",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "bigcommerce": {
              "type": "streamable-http",
              "url": "\u003cyour-storefront-mcp-url\u003e"
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/commerce.products",
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          "item": "Core",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 39,
          "note": "$29 billed yearly, up to $30K trailing 12-month GMV"
        },
        {
          "item": "Growth",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 105,
          "note": "$79 billed yearly, up to $100K trailing 12-month GMV"
        },
        {
          "item": "Scale",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 399,
          "note": "$299 billed yearly, up to $33,333 GMV a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Scale GMV overage",
          "unit": "pct",
          "usd": 0.9,
          "note": "on GMV above $33,333 a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Open payment provider fee on Core",
          "unit": "pct",
          "usd": 2,
          "note": "1.0% on Growth, 0.6% on Scale, none through embedded providers"
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        "legalEntity": "Commerce.com US, Inc.",
        "domain": "bigcommerce.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1999-02-08",
        "domainNote": "bigcommerce.com was registered in 1999, a decade before BigCommerce launched in 2009.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.commerce.com/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://www.commerce.com/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.bigcommerce.com",
        "changelog": "https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "bigcommerce.com terms and privacy pages redirect to commerce.com after the company's rename to Commerce",
          "Developer docs moved from developer.bigcommerce.com to docs.bigcommerce.com"
        ],
        "score": 90
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          "method": "get",
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              "date": "2026-10-02",
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.bigcommerce.com",
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        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:49:06.251032574Z"
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      "slug": "saleor",
      "name": "Saleor API + MCP",
      "vendor": "Saleor",
      "vendorUrl": "https://saleor.io",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "commerce",
      "summary": "Open-source headless commerce with a single GraphQL API for products, channels, checkouts, orders and customers, self-hosted or on Saleor Cloud.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/saleor",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/saleor.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/saleor.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/saleor.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/saleor/saleor",
      "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@saleor/app-sdk"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Public channel queries such as products need no token. Staff users get a JWT from tokenCreate, and apps get an app token limited to the permissions they request, such as MANAGE_PRODUCTS and MANAGE_ORDERS. The MCP server takes the Saleor API URL and a token in the X-Saleor-API-URL and X-Saleor-Auth-Token headers.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Self-hosting the BSD core is free. Saleor Cloud sandboxes are free for non-commercial use. Select $1,599 a month up to $200,000 GMV a month with 0.8% above it, Volume $3,999 a month up to $1,000,000 with 0.4% above it, Enterprise negotiated down to 0.2%. Optional onboarding add-ons at $6,000 and $12,000 one-time, credited back over the first year (https://saleor.io/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$1599 / mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402. Payments go through payment apps such as Stripe or Adyen.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 8,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 23397,
        "npmWeekly": 7310,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.saleor.io",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.saleor.io/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "commerce.products",
        "commerce.cart",
        "commerce.checkout",
        "commerce.orders",
        "commerce.headless"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "open-source",
        "self-hosted",
        "local",
        "hosted",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "python",
        "webhooks",
        "read-only-mode",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-30",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 68.7,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 121,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 4,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 86,
          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 45,
          "reliability": 50,
          "schema": 89,
          "security": 71,
          "transparency": 77
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": -2,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "Two high-severity advisories in the last 12 months touched customer data, an IDOR in the GraphQL API published 23 January 2026 (GHSA-r6fj-f4r9-36gr) and account pre-hijacking through an unverified anonymous order merge published 27 July 2026 (GHSA-6whj-8p3f-2xqp). Both were fixed and disclosed in public, so the deduction is small (https://github.com/saleor/saleor/security/advisories)."
        ],
        "verdict": "One GraphQL schema with 78 typed error-code enums and 464 marked deprecations. The MCP server can't create checkouts or orders.",
        "strengths": [
          "One GraphQL schema with 78 typed error-code enums and 464 marked deprecations",
          "BSD-3-Clause core, self-host or run on Saleor Cloud",
          "Official MCP server with 8 tools, all read-only, 7 with readOnlyHint and idempotentHint",
          "Thirteen patch releases between 5 August and 30 September 2026",
          "Security advisories published through GitHub, and SOC 2 Type 2 and PCI DSS claimed for Cloud"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The MCP server can't create checkouts or orders",
          "The hosted MCP at mcp.saleor.app only connects to saleor.cloud stores on 3.21 or later",
          "Cloud starts at $1,599 a month, and free sandboxes are non-commercial only",
          "No published request-rate limits, 429 guidance or SLA",
          "Self-hosted servers send usage telemetry by default"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Pass the channel slug on product and checkout queries. Prices and availability are per channel",
          "Send X-Saleor-API-URL and X-Saleor-Auth-Token on every MCP request, with a token holding MANAGE_PRODUCTS and MANAGE_ORDERS",
          "Read the `errors` array in every mutation payload. A 200 response can still carry a CheckoutErrorCode",
          "Keep queries under the 50,000 complexity cap and 100 items a page, and send at most 4 mutations per request",
          "The 3.24 changelog removes the old dummy payment plugins, so test checkouts should use a payment app"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 3.5,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 68.7
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 86,
          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 45,
          "reliability": 50,
          "schema": 89,
          "security": 71,
          "transparency": 83
        },
        "provenanceScore": 71
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -X POST \"https://\u003cyour-env\u003e.saleor.cloud/graphql/\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"query\":\"{ products(first: 5, channel: \\\"default-channel\\\") { edges { node { id name } } } }\"}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http saleor https://mcp.saleor.app/mcp --header \"X-Saleor-API-URL: https://\u003cyour-env\u003e.saleor.cloud/graphql/\" --header \"X-Saleor-Auth-Token: $SALEOR_TOKEN\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "saleor": {
              "headers": {
                "X-Saleor-API-URL": "https://\u003cyour-env\u003e.saleor.cloud/graphql/",
                "X-Saleor-Auth-Token": "${SALEOR_TOKEN}"
              },
              "type": "streamable-http",
              "url": "https://mcp.saleor.app/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/commerce.products",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/saleor"
      },
      "area": "business",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Cloud Select",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 1599,
          "note": "up to $200,000 GMV a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Select GMV overage",
          "unit": "pct",
          "usd": 0.8,
          "note": "on orders above the GMV cap"
        },
        {
          "item": "Cloud Volume",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 3999,
          "note": "up to $1,000,000 GMV a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Volume GMV overage",
          "unit": "pct",
          "usd": 0.4,
          "note": "on orders above the GMV cap"
        },
        {
          "item": "Self-hosted",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 0,
          "note": "BSD core, you pay for your own servers"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Saleor Commerce sp. z o.o.",
        "domain": "saleor.io",
        "domainRegistered": "2018-12-28",
        "domainNote": "Saleor's code dates from 2013; saleor.io was registered in 2018.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": false,
        "terms": "https://saleor.io/legal/terms",
        "privacy": "https://saleor.io/legal/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.saleor.io",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/saleor/saleor/releases",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "Cloud APIs run on saleor.cloud and the hosted MCP on saleor.app, not on saleor.io"
        ],
        "score": 71
      },
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      "live": {
        "slug": "saleor",
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.saleor.io",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T23:49:27.278056018Z"
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "saleor/saleor",
            "version": "3.23.38",
            "released": "2026-10-02",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:38:53.038673353Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@saleor/app-sdk",
            "version": "1.15.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:38:52.175145651Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 23408,
        "npmWeekly": 7874,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://saleor.io/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:37.767287728Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.saleor.io/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:12.351658497Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "saleor.io",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:19.936175554Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://saleor.io/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:47:30.75542623Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "d71c0304e251"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://saleor.io/legal/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:47:26.513536882Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "6db975edf88a"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://saleor.io/legal/terms",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:47:28.810007591Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "6bd50f5b31d6"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:49:27.278056018Z"
      }
    },
    "summary": "Saleor API + MCP has a score of 68.7 (B) against BigCommerce API + MCP's 64.5 (B). Both do commerce products. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 24 points."
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  "markdown": "Saleor API + MCP has a score of 68.7 (B) against BigCommerce API + MCP's 64.5 (B). Both do commerce products. The largest gap is agent ergonomics, 24 points.\n\n- BigCommerce API + MCP: grade B, 64.5/100, rank #180 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigcommerce.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bigcommerce.json\n- Saleor API + MCP: grade B, 68.7/100, rank #121 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/saleor.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/saleor.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick BigCommerce API + MCP for reliability (+12).\n\nPick Saleor API + MCP for schema \u0026 documentation (+23), agent ergonomics (+24), payments \u0026 pricing (+5).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | BigCommerce API + MCP | Saleor API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 62 | 50 | BigCommerce API + MCP +12 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 89 | Saleor API + MCP +23 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 86 | Saleor API + MCP +24 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 71 | Saleor API + MCP +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 45 | Saleor API + MCP +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 85 | Saleor API + MCP +3 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 77 | BigCommerce API + MCP +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.5 · B** | **68.7 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | BigCommerce API + MCP | Saleor API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | BigCommerce (Commerce.com) | Saleor |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.bigcommerce.com` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | BSD-3-Clause |\n| Tools exposed | 7 | 8 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Popularity | none | 23k stars, 7.3k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**BigCommerce API + MCP.** Published rate limits per plan, with X-Rate-Limit-Time-Reset-Ms on every 429. Storefront MCP is beta, switched on per store, has no back-office tools and documents no tool annotations.\n\n**Saleor API + MCP.** One GraphQL schema with 78 typed error-code enums and 464 marked deprecations. The MCP server can't create checkouts or orders.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### BigCommerce API + MCP\n\n1. Give the agent a store-level API account with only the scopes the task needs, and delete it when done\n2. On a 429, wait X-Rate-Limit-Time-Reset-Ms before retrying\n3. Expect up to 10 minutes after a store owner enables the MCP before the URL answers\n4. The MCP stops at a checkout URL. Payment happens in the shopper's browser\n5. Point a coding agent at the docs MCP at https://docs.bigcommerce.com/_mcp/server\n\n### Saleor API + MCP\n\n1. Pass the channel slug on product and checkout queries. Prices and availability are per channel\n2. Send X-Saleor-API-URL and X-Saleor-Auth-Token on every MCP request, with a token holding MANAGE_PRODUCTS and MANAGE_ORDERS\n3. Read the `errors` array in every mutation payload. A 200 response can still carry a CheckoutErrorCode\n4. Keep queries under the 50,000 complexity cap and 100 items a page, and send at most 4 mutations per request\n5. The 3.24 changelog removes the old dummy payment plugins, so test checkouts should use a payment app\n\n## Other comparisons with BigCommerce API + MCP or Saleor API + MCP\n\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP vs Commerce Layer API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-commerce-layer.md)\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP vs Elastic Path API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-elastic-path.md)\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP vs Medusa API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-medusa.md)\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP vs Shopify API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-shopify.md)\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP vs Snipcart API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-snipcart.md)\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP vs Swell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-swell.md)\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP vs Vendure](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-vendure.md)\n- [BigCommerce API + MCP vs WooCommerce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigcommerce-vs-woocommerce.md)\n- [Commerce Layer API + MCP vs Saleor API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/commerce-layer-vs-saleor.md)\n- [Elastic Path API + MCP vs Saleor API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elastic-path-vs-saleor.md)\n- [Medusa API + MCP vs Saleor API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/medusa-vs-saleor.md)\n- [Saleor API + MCP vs Shopify API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/saleor-vs-shopify.md)\n- [Saleor API + MCP vs Snipcart API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/saleor-vs-snipcart.md)\n- [Saleor API + MCP vs Swell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/saleor-vs-swell.md)\n- [Saleor API + MCP vs Vendure](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/saleor-vs-vendure.md)\n- [Saleor API + MCP vs WooCommerce API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/saleor-vs-woocommerce.md)\n",
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